Today, the Daily Meal publishes its list of America’s 101 Best Wineries. The food and drink lifestyle site does a lot of lists — best hot dogs, best burgers, best restaurants. But they put some extra effort into this one.
To come up with 101 of America’s best wineries, they started, first of all, with last year’s list (their first ever), and then looked at what wineries had been getting some love from the wine press lately, asked their wine writers and esteemed members of Daily Meal’s “council.” Any suggested candidates there were added to voting list and when it came time to vote, there was a space for write-ins.